Our Workshops
Adaptive Resilience
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Description

2-Day Workshop Outline
This is the new “business as usual.”
It’s perseverance. Tenacity. Staying power. And it’s your future.
We used to call it “changing with the times.” Just like that phrase is antiquated, so is the response it used to evoke. Now, the “times” are more unpredictable. They change constantly, and evolving with them is an always-on process.
We call it Adaptive Resilience.
It’s not an objective to achieve or a race to win. It’s something you always do – a dynamic, ongoing state of development, a mindset rather than a static trait.
Adaptive resilience is embracing the constant of change in a more intentional way, utilizing all the tools and services and partners available to you.
Adaptive resilience is the capacity of individuals, teams, and organizations to not only recover from disruption ("bounce back") but to proactively adapt, evolve, and thrive amidst changing circumstances and adversity. It combines psychological strength with flexibility, enabling sustained productivity and purpose-driven transformation during high-velocity, unpredictable crises.
Key Aspects of Adaptive Resilience:
Beyond Bouncing Back: It is not just returning to a previous state but adjusting to new, often more challenging conditions.
Proactive Transformation: It involves restructuring or changing approaches, rather than just enduring, to align with new realities.
Core Purpose Retention: Organizations maintain their identity and core purpose while altering their methods to fit changing environments.
Continuous Learning & Data Usage: It leverages real-time data to inform decisions and fosters a culture of ongoing learning and improvement.
Key Drivers and Components:
Shared Sense-making: Teams collaboratively interpret and understand the crisis.
Relational Capital: Building strong, trusting relationships to facilitate collective action.
Collective Problem-solving: Empowering employees across all levels to find solutions and embrace change.
Flexibility & Agility: Building operational flexibility to respond to unforeseen threats.

We have to move beyond “trusting your gut” as a business strategy. Instead, trust what you can learn from the voices of your customers and employees as a way to validate (or challenge) your gut feelings. Their human experiences are a rare source of truth. Put them at the heart of not just what, but how you do what you do.
Develop Clarity
Managing stress and overwhelm, and staying focused in difficult and uncertain times.
Shift Mindsets
Mindsets and skills for adaptability and creativity in the midst of uncertainty and complexity.
Build Trust
Creating a change-capable culture by growing empathy and psychological safety in your team and organization.
Develop Clarity
Managing stress and overwhelm, and staying focused in difficult and uncertain times.
Learning Objectives
Equip yourself and the team with tools for staying calm and working with difficult emotions in the midst of adversity.
Develop the skills for harnessing mental clarity and focus in uncertain and ambiguous times.
- Develop Clarity
- Shift Mindsets
- Mindsets and skills for adaptability and creativity in the midst of uncertainty and complexity.
Grow capacity to adapt in the face of major disruptions in work and life
Broaden perspectives to transition from negativity biases to growth mindsets
Increase creativity and define new possibilities
- Shift Mindsets
- Build Trust
- Creating a change-capable culture by growing empathy and psychological safety in your team and organization.
Understand the role connection can have in building trust.
Grow capacity to exercise empathy and compassion in challenging times.
Understand psychological safety and how to integrate it into your team and organization especially during times of difficulty and massive disruption.
Actionable skills for growing empathy and psychological safety in order to create an agile, change-capable culture in teams and organizations.
